That sounds lilke an encouraging first half. I think Hobart is better than their record indicates. And for Michigan to do that while a number of their regular players are out is very encouraging. Hopefully our second half keeps it close and we can take a step forward.

Not sure if that's the case. I believe Hobart has been a sub-par faceoff team so far this year, so it may just be that as Brad Lott is out (who was near 50% the last couple games himself), Wylie is facing some favorable competition. Sounds like we might be close to having two options now, which is huge.

Great performance overall for Michigan. If we keep playing at this level, I see good things happening in the future. Probably not this year, but looking down the road- I friend of mine who coached top level high school lacrosse in Virginia said that the transition period is 3 years of bad teams, and that fourth year is the one where you will hit at .500 record. Is that true?

Probably not to get to .500, I bet we get there by year four. In year four, we'll have three solid recruiting class and a senior class with tons of experience. We won't be beating the top teams yet, but I think .500 can be expected.

We have very few guys seeing the field now who won't be here still in year 4. The few guys we lose will be replaced by the stars in the next two recruiting classes.

I thought they would be better by now. I thought Michigan would be able to make the transition more successfully than they have thus far. I'm afraid they won't win a game this year. I think a lot of the turbulence and turnover has hurt the team.

I think its great that there are a lot of freshmen getting quality minutes. I just wish there were more experienced upperclassmen around to shoulder the burden for now.

Well, there's really no reason to think we should have won any game we've lost this year outside of High Point, who we played down to the wire.

The reason our frosh are getting so many minutes is because they're the only D1 recruits on the team. Imagine a football team full of four star freshman and all walk ons. That's basically what we're looking at right now.

I know people wanted us to be better right now, but most in the know did not expect that. Hobart is not a terrible team, but we played right with them today. We will be a food team, but not for another year or two. The basketball team took a decade to get good again, and at least Beilein had tradition and D1 players to work with.

The Metropolitan Lacrosse Classic on Sunday, March 17 at Citi Field (regular season home of the New York Mets) will include the Michigan-Colgate game scheduled to start at 3:00 PM. Navy plays Holy Cross in the opening game starting at noon.

Colgate senior attackman Peter Baum won the 2012 Tewaaraton Award as the top male player in collegiate lacrosse. Hobart upset Colgate 9-8 in overtime on March 5, limiting Baum to two goals. Colgate leads Holy Cross 6-2 at the half in today's game.

I've said it before, but I completely agree with WolvinLA2. Starting with the club roster set the development of the team back a couple of years compared to the more traditional way of doing it. I'm not saying it was wrong. The club players got a great opportunity they didn't anticipate when they came to Michigan, and their success was probably a big part of why the transition happened. How great for them that they got the chance to be Team One. But the difference between those guys and some of the freshmen in this class is clear. The starting midfield line are all freshmen, and that's the strength of the offense. That says a lot. More recruiting classes will bring in more D1 talent and provide more quality depth. Each class will be better than the last for the first few years too. The fact that they are competing at all right now is a positive.

Even the High Point game illustrated this fact. They have only D1 kids on that roster. Two classes worth, plus transfers. Marquette is the same. We think of them as newer, but both programs announced BEFORE Michigan.

Aside from general maturation and depth, this team needs better defensive players, especially D middies, an attackman or two who can dodge, a backup goalie, and some second line middies who can be a threat.

How many guys were out of the lineup yesterday? Seems like a lot. Injuries? Suspensions? Hopefully some of those guys will be back this week.

The fact that we were missing a third of our starters (I heard it was suspensions, at least for the frosh) when our team has little depth and we were still able to hang right with Hobart on the road is encouraging.

I watched UMBC play Hopkins on TV on Friday and for most of that game Hopkins was able to take it to UMBC more than they did to us and although UMBC isn't elite, they're an established program in Maryland.